Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth | With the Boyle Family (2008)

KIM COLEMAN & JENNY HOGARTH WITH the Boyle Family

Documentation of performance, ICA 2008

duration 8’ 12’’

This work with the Boyle family was a re-staging of ‘Oh What a Lovely Whore’, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills’ 1965 event at the ICA. For ‘Oh What a Lovely Whore’ Mark and Joan announced to the audience that 'if you want a performance you have to do it yourselves', inviting people to make a performance using the materials around them. The original score was intended to be re-used and this 2008 re-enactment reconsidered the introduction of avant-garde happenings to the UK and what happens to a work when its score is re-interpreted in a different era.

Texts:

Exhibition Essay

by Neil Mulholland, ICA Nought to Sixty catalogue, Dec 2008

Performance score

by Mark Boyle (1965)

What's Happening Man? Another ICA Re-Enactment.

by JJ Charlesworth, artreview.com, May 2008

Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth with The Boyle family

Transcribed by Wendy Short